Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Day Trip: Adventureland

We've been planning our short day trips for July so that we don't have to be too far from home in August in case baby decides to come early.  Instead of a vacation we're doing day trips, really only a couple but getaways just the same.

We started with a sleepover on Friday evening at Grandma Marsha and Grandpa Mike's in Newton.  A familiar love of Adilyn's is Bunny the bird.  How can she resist, it's so beautiful any kind of animal should be held as far as Adi is concerned.

On Saturday we rode off to Adventureland with our threesome, Grandma and Grandpa, Keelan, Larry's family, Carisa and her sister in-law with her 3 year old twins.  Bless that woman for having the strength and endurance to raise twin boys on her own!  We had quite a crew and needless to say, keeping track of everyone was quite a challenge.

Adi enjoyed some rides while we were there.  Daddy is particularly proud of Adi the pilot.
Adilyn's favorite was the Frog Hopper.  It's the kids version of the space shot which was Cam's favorite. I think Adi went on this thing 4 or 5 times, and watching her face and the huge smile each time was so much fun for me, I didn't even mind not being able to go on any of the rides.
It felt like it could have been one of the hottest days of the year so we spent a good amount of time at the new water park which was jam packed full of people.  Afterward, Adi and Keely rode the Chuck Wagon.  I think the guy running the ride was named Chuck which made it all the more interesting.
The Puff Dragons were a cute ride that Adi and Elleh went on together.  It was fun for Adi to have her cousins there to go on the kiddy rides with her.
After Adventureland we got to hang out at Carisa and Jeff's place for a while and Adi especially loved the above ground pool.  She's done so great in her swim lessons over the past several weeks and I know swimming in the pool with the brave and rambunctious twins definitely gave her more confidence to try new things and have fun at her lessons.  It's been fun to see the progress.

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